Editing Terry Jones (section)

=== Writer and brewer ===
Jones wrote many books and screenplays, including comic works and more serious writing on medieval history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Terry+Jones&dblist=638&fq=ap%3A%22jones%2C+terry%22&qt=facet_ap%3A#x0%253Abook-%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Aprintbook%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Adigital%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Athsis%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Alargeprint%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Amic%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Abraille%2529%2C%2528x0%253Abook%2Bx4%253Amss%2529format |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="St Edmund Hall" />

He also had an interest in [[real ale]], and was a member of the [[Campaign for Real Ale]]. In 1977 he co-founded the Penrhos Brewery, a [[microbrewery]] at [[Penrhos Court]] at [[Penrhos, Herefordshire]], which ran until 1983. The former brewery has now become a pub called The Python's Arms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2008/09/11/A-pint-with-Terry-Jones|title=A pint with Terry Jones|website=morningadvertiser.co.uk|date=10 September 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10906130/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-British-beer.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10906130/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-British-beer.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=12 things you didn't know about British beer|first=Jessica|last=Boak|date=19 June 2014|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==== Comedy ====
Jones co-wrote ''[[Ripping Yarns]]'' with Palin. They also wrote a play, ''Underwood's Finest Hour'', which was staged at the [[Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith]] in 1981, about an obstetrician distracted during a birth by the radio broadcast of a [[Test cricket|Test match]].<ref>[[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]], "Bookshelf", ''[[The Cricketer]]'', January 1982, p. 35.</ref> Jones also wrote numerous works for children, including ''Fantastic Stories'', ''The Beast with a Thousand Teeth'' and a collection of comic verse called ''The Curse of the Vampire's Socks''.<ref name="Writers of Wales">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/terry-jones/ |website=Fantastic Fiction |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

Jones was the co-creator (with [[Gavin Scott]]) of the [[animated]] TV series ''[[Blazing Dragons]]'' (1996–1998), which parodied the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] legends and [[Middle Ages]] periods. Reversing a common story convention, the series' [[protagonists]] are [[anthropomorphic]] [[dragon]]s beset by evil humans.<ref name="Writers of Wales" /><ref name="Fantastic Fiction" />

==== Screenplays ====
Jones wrote the screenplay for ''[[Labyrinth (1986 film)|Labyrinth]]'' (1986), although his draft went through several rewrites and several other writers before being filmed; consequently, much of the finished film was not actually written by Jones.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/la2/withinyourheart/monty.html|title=The Terry Jones Labyrinth Interview|website=[[Angelfire]]}}</ref>

==== History ====
{{Quote box|width=29%|align=right|quote="[you] speak to him on subjects as diverse as [[fossil fuel]]s, or [[Rupert Bear]], or mercenaries in the [[Middle Ages]] or Modern China&nbsp;... in a moment you will find yourself hopelessly out of your depth, floored by his knowledge."|source=—Python biographer George Perry on Jones<ref>Perry, George (2007). ''The Life of Python''. p. 40. Pavilion</ref>}}
Jones wrote books and presented television documentaries on [[Middle Ages|medieval]] and [[Classical antiquity|ancient history]]. His first book was ''Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary'' (1980), which offers an alternative take on [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Knight's Tale]]''. Chaucer's knight is often interpreted as a paragon of [[Seven virtues|Christian virtue]], but Jones asserts that if one studies historical accounts of the battles the knight claims he was involved in, he can be interpreted as a typical [[mercenary]] and a potentially cold-blooded killer.<ref name="Conversation">{{cite web |last1=Turner |first1=Marion |title=Terry Jones: professional comic, amateur historian, accomplished human being |url=https://theconversation.com/terry-jones-professional-comic-amateur-historian-accomplished-human-being-130514? |website=The Conversation |publisher=The Conversation UK |access-date=20 March 2023 |date=24 January 2020}}</ref> He also co-wrote ''Who Murdered Chaucer?'' (2003) in which he argues that Chaucer was close to [[King Richard II]], and that after Richard was deposed, Chaucer was persecuted to death by [[Thomas Arundel]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Jonathan|last=Myerson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/15/classics.highereducation|title=Review: Who Murdered Chaucer?|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 November 2003|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref>

Jones' TV series also frequently challenged popular views of history. For example, in ''[[Terry Jones' Medieval Lives]]'' (2004; for which he received a 2004 [[Emmy]] nomination for "Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming")<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/terry-jones-medieval-lives|title=Terry Jones' Medieval Lives|website=emmys.com|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> he argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought,<ref name=tjml>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3507439.stm|title=Python slams 'overrated' Renaissance|work=BBC News|date=23 February 2004|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref> and ''[[Terry Jones' Barbarians]]'' (2006) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the [[Roman Empire]] in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, attributing the [[Sack of Rome (410)|Sack of Rome]] in AD 410 to propaganda.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00791rm|title=BBC One – Terry Jones's Barbarians|website=BBC}}</ref>

==== Column writing ====
Jones wrote numerous columns for ''[[The Guardian]], [[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Observer]]'' condemning the [[Iraq War]]. Many of these editorials were published in a paperback collection titled ''Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror''.<ref name="St Edmund Hall">{{cite web |title=Terry Jones {{!}} Honorary Fellow |url=https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/terry-jones |website=St Edmund Hall |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013050910/https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/terry-jones |archive-date=13 October 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Python gets serious |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/ |access-date=22 January 2020 |agency=CNN |archive-date=23 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123094847/https://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/terry.jones/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In November 2011, his book ''[[Evil Machines]]'' was launched by the online publishing house [[Unbound (publisher)|Unbound]] at the Adam Street Club in London. It was the first book to be published by a [[crowdfunding]] website dedicated solely to books.<ref>{{cite news|first=Terry|last=Jones|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/terry-jones-publishing-evil-machines|title=How a new online venture helped to publish Evil Machines|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 November 2011|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref> Jones provided significant support to Unbound as they developed their publishing concept. In February 2018, Jones released ''The Tyrant and the Squire'', also with Unbound.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Neill |first1=Graeme |title=Terry Jones first Unbound author {{!}} The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/terry-jones-first-unbound-author# |website=The Bookseller |access-date=22 January 2020 |date=19 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Jones |url=https://unbound.com/authors/terry-jones |website=Unbound |access-date=22 January 2020 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930231153/https://unbound.com/authors/terry-jones |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==== Poetry ====
Jones was a member of the [[Poetry Society]], and his poems have appeared in ''[[Poetry Review]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Yorkshire Post video interview: Python Terry Jones |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-yorkshire-post-video-interview-python-terry-jones-1-2341143 |access-date=22 January 2020 |work=yorkshirepost.co.uk |date=3 April 2009 |archive-date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627202431/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/the-yorkshire-post-video-interview-python-terry-jones-1-2341143 |url-status=dead }}</ref>